Geo-encoding

[ericande]

What are the options for encoding pictures' EXIF with location data?

I use smugmug and I can manually type in addresses or lat/long but that isn't exactly fast if I have a set of 100 shots. I understand some cameras have GPS built-in but I don't want to buy a new camera and plus those aren't DSLRs.

What I'd ideally like to have is a GPS that just tracked me (breadcrumb mode or whatever) and software that could match those 'breadcrumbs' to the EXIF data in a folder of pictures. Then it could match times to put lat/long data in all the pics. Is there anything out there like that? Any other cool options?

I take long motorcycle rides and it'd be cool to put something like that on my website.

 

[Garbz]

Hmmm now that is interesting. Maybe providing the timestamps on the EXIF and the GPS data match up it should be relatively easy enough to write a program to do this. But then I'm not a software engineer, and from what I've heard reading and writing EXIF data can be a pain to program.

The other alternative is the Nikon D200 / D2Xs + GPS adapter + GPS unit. Way to expensive for my tastes.

 

[jstuedle]

The D1X can do this as well. They are available fairly cheap these days. Not a better camera built at the time. (JMHO)

 

[ericande]

Someone on offtopic shared this with me and it is perfect! Thought I'd share the link...

http://www.gisteq.com/index-PT.html